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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Extreme Pie Charts

For several years we've been creating infographics to help visualise different aspects of snowboarding. One thing we've almost entirely avoided using so far is the much maligned pie chart, described by this guy as, "easily the worst way to convey information ever developed in the history of data visualization". This week we challenge our fears and give this plucky little underdog a chance. And it's also a chance for you to win big by giving it a shot too, thanks to the team at Extreme Pie who have agreed to supply the prize. Sometimes this stuff just writes itself...

Here's the prize that's up for grabs; a nice array of snowboard swag, either for yourself, or a way of getting Christmas done in one go:

3. You've got two weeks to enter. The closing date is Thursday December 5th.

4. We'll select a winner

5. Stuff gets stuffed in the post

6. You win Christmas

To give you some inspiration here are a few we've created:

Earlier this season the guys at Whitelines posted up this video along with the claim "Is this the first circle rail success story?"

After 5 years of Illicit Snowboarding I thought it was about time we shared some information on what type of content people read the most on the site:

Not that I'm bitter or anything, but my recent post on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's theory of Flow I was so damn proud of, is setting records for the least read post on the site ever. What the hell is wrong with you?